Hacking History: Automatic Historical Event Extraction for Enriching Cultural Heritage Multimedia Collections !
Roxane Segers, Marieke van Erp, Lourens van der Meij, Lora M. Aroyo, Guus Schreiber, Bob J. Wielinga, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Johan Oomen, Geertje Jacobs · VU Research Portal · 2011
Abstract. Within cultural heritage collections, objects are often grounded in a particular historical setting. This setting can currently not be made explicit, as structured descriptions of events are either missing or not marked up explicitly. This poster reports a study on automatic extraction of an historical event thesaurus from unstructured texts. We also present a demo in which relations between events and museum objects are visualised to accommodate event- and object-driven search and browsing of two cultural heritage collections. 1